This flag was designed during the State Secession Convention. The blue field and white star in the canton corner are based on the
"Bonnie Blue Flag", and the magnolia tree is the State Tree of Mississippi. It remained the official state flag until February 1894.

Ordinance of Secession of Mississippi
(Passed in the State Capitol at Jackson on 09 January 1861, by a vote of 83-15.)

AN ORDINANCEto dissolve the union between the State of Mississippi and other States united with her under the compact entitled
"The Constitution of the United States of America."

The people of the State of Mississippi, in Convention assembled, do ordain and declare, and it is hereby ordained and declared, as follows,
to-wit:

Section 1. That all the laws and ordinances by which the said State of Mississippi became a member of the Federal Union of the United States
of America be, and the same are hereby, repealed, and that all obligations on the part of said State or the people thereof to observe the
same be withdrawn; and that the said State doth hereby resume all the rights, functions, and powers which by any of said laws or ordinances
were conveyed to the Government of the said United States, and is absolved from all the obligations, restraints, and duties incurred to the
said Federal Union, and shall from henceforth be a free, sovereign, and independent State.

Section 2. That so much of the first section of the seventh article of the Constitution of this State as requires members of the Legislature
and all officers, executive and judicial, to take an oath or affirmation to support the Constitution of the United States be, and the same
is hereby, abrogated and annulled.

Section 3. That all rights acquired and vested under the Constitution of the United States, or under any act of Congress passed, or treaty
made, in pursuance thereof, or under any law of this State, and not incompatible with this ordinance, shall remain in force and have the same
effect as if this ordinance had not been passed.

Section 4. That the people of the State of Mississippi hereby consent to form a federal union with such of the States as may have seceded
or may secede from the Union of the United States of America, upon the basis of the present Constitution of the said United States, except
such parts thereof as embrace other portions than such seceding States.

Thus ordained and declared in Convention the 9th day of January, in the year of our Lord 1861.

Mississippi Secession Convention Officers
(County of representation is in Parentheses.
To assist in completing full names contact the
Historian.)